Workers.org – By Leslie Feinberg
Lavender & red, part 108
Mariela Castro Esp?n, director of Cuba?s National Center for Sex Education (CENESEX), recalled that three decades ago a Cuban from Matanzas who was born female-bodied but identified as male came to Havana for help.
In response, Cuban revolutionary leader and president of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC), Vilma Esp?n, recommended in 1979 that a special committee be established, coordinated by the National Work Group on Sex Education?CENESEX?s predecessor. The FMC had formed the Work Group in 1972; CENESEX was established in 1989.
The first result, Castro Esp?n related, was an agreement with the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Justice to issue new identity papers. Three transsexual Cubans got new identity documents under that accord.